Recently published Ornithological Works. 369 



for some o£ the very early records of arrivals in the first 

 three months of the year. 



We are much indebted to the committee and especially 

 to the secretary, Dr. N. F. Ticehurst, for the unflagging 

 energy displayed in compiling this report. Few who have 

 not taken part in the work realize what an enormous amount 

 of time and labour is required to reduce and codify the 

 observations sent in by about 300 observers on land and 

 from over 90 light-stations. 



Chapman on new Neotropical Birds. 



[Diagnoses of apparently new Colombian Birds. — III, By Frank M. 

 Chapman. Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. xxxiii. 1914, pp. 603-637.] 



This paper contains diagnoses of twenty-four new sub- 

 species, and two new species [Pachyrhamphus magdalence 

 and Cistothorus apoliaari) obtained by the various collectors 

 sent out by the American Museum of recent years to 

 Colombia. Mr. Chapman states that he hopes eventually 

 to embody these and previous descriptions in a final report 

 on the Museum's work in Colombia. Most of the species 

 come apparently from the less explored western part of the 

 republic lying between Bogota and the Pacific. Further 

 expeditions are now woricing in this country as well as in 

 Panama, and when the final report is completed our know- 

 ledge of the extraordinarily rich bird-life of northern South 

 America will undoubtedly be very greatly extended. 



Miss Havilatid on the Yenesei. 



[A summer on the Yenesei (1914). By Maud D. Haviland. Pp. xii 

 + 328 ; many photos. London (Arnold), 1915. 8vo. 10s. 6^.] 



Last summer Miss Haviland with Miss Czaplicka, the 

 well-known Polish anthropologist of Oxford University, 

 Miss Dora Curtis, and Mr. H. V. Hall, made an adven- 

 turous journey down the Yenesei. Leaving London on 

 May 28, the party travelled overland to Krasnoyarsk, where 

 the Trans-Siberian railway crosses the Yenesei. Thence 

 they descended the Yenesei in a steamer to Golchika, 

 arriving there on June 28. This dreary spot, which is about 

 1500 miles down the river from Krasnoyarsk, lies well 

 within the Arctic Circle and is surrounded by the eternally 



